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    "id": 66995,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/66995/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wamalwa",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Eugene Ludovic Wamalwa",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I also rise to support this Motion. As we speak today, 2015 is just a few years to come. It will not be possible to meet the MDGs. Next year will be 2012 and we will only have three years to go. However, among the goals and targets set, the issue of reduction of extreme poverty and hunger still remains the biggest challenge to our nation. It is a challenge that our founding fathers declared one of our greatest enemies at Independence. It still remains the biggest challenge we face today, over 40 years later. The gap between the rich and the poor has widened greatly. When J.M. Kariuki spoke of a nation of 10 millionaires and 10 million Kenyans, then Kenya was still a largely divided society in terms of the rich and the poor. However, today, that gap has widened and Kenya is one of the nations with the largest gap between the rich and the poor. Efforts at poverty eradication have not been very successful. When we compare Kenya like a country which has got millions of people out of poverty within 10 or so years, we ask ourselves why as a nation we have not been successful in closing reducing poverty and ensuring that we have sufficient food for our people."
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